Larisa Matros
| Larisa Matros | |
|---|---|
 L. Matros | |
| Born | Odessa, Ukraine |
Larisa Grigorievna Matros (Russian: Лариса Григорьевна Матрос) is a sociologist, philosopher, writer, literary critic, and poet.
Life and career
Matros was born in 1938 in Odessa, Ukraine, where she graduated from the Law Department of the Odessa State University in 1963.[1] The first steps in her career were defined by the legal profession—a job in law enforcement from 1960 to 1962 and a job as a legal adviser in the Trade Company from 1962 to 1964. After moving to Akademgorodok in 1964, L. Matros’ career took a turn, from practicing lawyer to scientist. In Akademgorodok, she started as a post graduate student at the Department of Philosophy of the Novosibirsk State University, where she received a PhD in Philosophy in 1972. After that, during the years 1974-1991, she worked in the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Medical Sciences.[2] where eventually she was promoted to the position of chair of the Philosophy Department of the Presidium of the Siberian Branch. During those years Matros published about one hundred scholarly works, including a book The Right to Health [Pravo na zdorovie], with co-author, well-known academician V. Kaznacheev, 1979. [3]
The main publication of Matros that reflects a generalized analysis of her research, is the monograph Social Aspects of Health Problems (Sotsial’nye aspekty problemy zdorovya), which appeared in print in 1992 and became until now one of the basic publications and quotation book in the field of the science of sociology of medicine.[4]
Matros’ research and academic work were always combined with corresponding science-organizing activity. She became a known initiator, organizer, and a permanent member of the organizing committee of local and international conferences about contemporary issues of human, philosophical aspects of medicine, for example "Medicine and Humanism".[2]
Literary activity
In 1992 Larisa Matros moved to the United States and turned to literary activity. Since the first years of this period of her life she became engaged in cultural and literary life of both the United States and Russia.
The main publications at this part of Matros’ creative career are two large sociological novels Presumption of Guilt (published in 2000) and It Is Called Life (published in 2007).[5][6][7][8][9][10]
In the first novel Matros applies her former scientific experience and knowledge to fiction, in which "alongside fictional characters act real people," well-known persons: politicians, academicians, public figures.[11] It is a novel about the history of Soviet sociology, fate of Russian intelligentsia, humanities scientists, their input into social processes, their hopes, illusions, and disappointments in Khrushchev’s reforms and Gorbachev’s perestroika. In historical and fictional plots the author addresses the "main theme of the novel [which is] the responsibility of [scientific] intelligentsia for society and the responsibility of society for intelligentsia." The public (writers, reviewers, readers) comments was reflected in local and central editions, press, paper and electronic letters. One of the main subjects that made this book special is the historical and sociological analysis of the phenomenon of the world famous science center in Siberia – Akademgorodok where the author spent 27 years.[12][13][14]>[15]
Major publications
Books
- Matros L.G, Social Aspects of Health Problems. (Sotsial’nye aspekty problemy zdorovya), monograph, Nayka, Novosibirsk, 1992.
- Matros, Larisa, And Life, and Tears, and Love, (I jiz’n, i sliozy, i l’ubov’), poetry collection, St. Petersburg, Nasibulin, 1998.
- Matros, Larisa, Presumption of Guilt (Prezumtsiya vinovnosti), sociological novel, Liberty Publishing House, New York, 2000 (first part of dilogy).
- Matros, Larisa, It Is Called Life (Nazyvaetsya jiz’n), sociological novel, Art-Avenue, Novosibirsk, 2007 (second part of dilogy).
- Matros, Larisa, Not So Small Tragedies (Nemalen’kye tragedii), collection of short stories and small novels, M-Graphics, Boston, 2010.
- Matros, Larisa, Geometry of Thoughts (Geometriya myslei), collection of journalist and literary reviews, New York, 2009.
- Matros, Larisa, Asymmetry of the Senses (Assimetriya chuvstv), collection of short stories and essays, New York, 2010.
- Matros, Larisa, Sometimes It Happens (Tak uzh byvaet), New York, 2012.
- Kaznacheev, V. P, Matros L.G, The right to health (Pravo na zdorov’e), Znanie, Moscow, 1979.
- Matros, Larisa, Poeziia russkikh filisofov dvadtsatogo veka. Antologiia [Poetry of 20th-Century Russian Philosophers. An Anthology], collected by M. Sergeev and L. Stolovich, Boston: M-Graphics, 2011, pp. 183–195.
Editor of scientific anthologies
- Methodological Problems in Medicine and Biology (Metodologicheskie problemy meditsiny i biologii), Nauka, Novosibirsk, 1985.
- Human Health in the Condition of Scientific and Technological Revolution (Zdorovie cheloveka v usloviakh nauchno-tekhnicheskoi revolutsii), Nauka, Novosibirsk, 1989.
Selected short stories
- “Through an azure steppe, as a pearly chain,” Anthology of PEN, USA, 2010.
- “Co-author,” Slovo/ Word, № 45, USA, 2005; Day and Night, Russia, 2006.
- “The Dog with the Lady," Day and Night, Russia, 2002.
- “Mama," Day and Night, Russia, 2004.
- “With Tears in Eyes,” Senator, Russia, 2005; Slovo/ Word, USA, 2007.
- “Without Fuss”, Collection, Not So Small Tragedies, USA, 2010.
- “Veteran's Last Feat ,” Senator, Russia, anthology “Sometimes It Happens”, USA 2010.
Essays
- “My Odessa and my Sholom Aleichem, 40,” World News, Odessa, 1995.
- “I and Child,” The Coast magazine, 2001; Bulletin of Russian Philosophical Society #1, 2012.
- “Not Only Science,” anthology, We Could not Forget, Russia, 2007.
Articles
- "Do not Forget the Future," Herald, USA, 1994.
- “Harmony Between the ‘Need and Want’,” Herald, USA, 1993.
- “The modern world and the criteria for its development,” Bulletin of Convention in San Francisco, USA, 1996.
- “Beauty will Save the World (Dostoevsky) if the World Will Save the Beauty,” Slovo/Word, USA, 2003.
- “I want each of the people become a Person,” Coast, USA, 2007.
- “Non-American Tragedy,” Senator, Russia, 2008.
- “What begins Motherland... in America?,” Senator, Russia, 2006.
Literary reviews
- “Space and Time,” reflections on the book I Was Born in the Queue by Yuri Druzhnikov, The Coast, USA, 1997.
- “The Man Who Wanted the Best,” notes on a book by Andrei Grachev, adviser to the first and last President of the USSR Gorbachev, Panorama, 2002; The Coast, USA, 2004.
- “Notes about ‘Anna Karenina’," The Coast, USA, 2003; Renaissance, Ukraine, 2009.
- “Philosopher Vladimir Vysotsky (On the 70th Anniversary of the Poet),” The Coast, 2008.
References
- ↑ Sergey Chuprinin, New Russia, encyclopedic dictionary, (World Literature: Moscow, 2002)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Biography of Larisa Matros in Poeziia russkikh filisofov dvadtsatogo veka. Antologiia [Poetry of 20th-Century Russian Philosophy. An Anthology], collected by M. Sergeev and L. Stolovich, Boston: M-Graphics, 2011, pp. 181-182
- ↑ This is in reference to the digitized works of Larisa Matros which appear in the electronic library of the world famous academician of the Academy of Medicine, Vlail Petrovich Kaznacheev.
- ↑ Chelovek i Nauka (This is a reference to the site Chelovek i Nauka (Man and Science) which lists scientific works by world renowned scientists, such as the Nobel Prize Laureate I. I. Mechnikov, where the book Social Aspects of Health Problems by Larisa Matros was included.)
- ↑ Review of Larisa Matros’ two novels in Russian: Spodik, V. “Dilogy of Larisa Matros,” The Coast Magazine, #17 (2008). (Please note that you have to select issue #17 from the drop-down menu of the main page of the Coast Magazine in order to access the review.)
- ↑ Khurgina, Sarah. "Utopian Republic: About the Book by Larisa Matros 'Presumption of Guilt'," Panorama # 1003. June–July 2000, New York.
- ↑ Krichevskaia, "After Two Years," journal Teatr, iskusstvo, literatura (Theater, Art, Literature), # 1/35 (2003), New York.
- ↑ Ibragimova, Zamira. "Memory, Sorrow, Unpaid Depts," review of Larisa Matros' novel Presumption of Guilt in the weekly newspaper of Siberian academy of Sciences - "Science in Siberia," #8(2394), March 2003, pp. 8.
- ↑ Website of Larisa Matros: reviews of readers of It Is Called Life by Larisa Matros
- ↑ Website of Larisa Matros: reviews of readers of Presumption of Guilt by Larisa Matros
- ↑ Solovieva, Еlena, "Writers the Akademgorodok: Natives and Immigrants," newspaper Navigator, #27 (July 13, 2007).
- ↑ «Работа над фразеологизмом один из шагов на пути к подготовке учащихся к егэ»
- ↑ Matros, Larisa, “Ia i Detia,” (Baby and I), an essay on human creativity, Bulletin of Russian Philosophical Society, #2(62), 2012.
- ↑ Журнал "Вопросы философии" - Рец. на кн.: Поэзия русских философов XX века. Антология
- ↑ Yudina, L., "Staying Russian," weekly newspaper of Siberian Academy of Sciences - Nauka v Sibiri (Science in Siberia), 32(2518), August 19, 2005, pp. 12
External links
http://magazines.russ.ru/authors/m/matros/
http://zarubezhje.narod.ru/texts/chss_0940.htm
http://www.krasdin.ru/2002-5-6/list.htm
http://www.krasdin.ru/2005-5-6/s019.htm
http://www.globalistika.ru/Globalistika/p_av_30.htm
Larisa Matros at her literary meeting with readers in House of Science in Akademgorogok
http://vn.ru/index.php?id=53816
http://wpedia.goo.ne.jp/enwiki/Larisa_Matros
Review A.Grachev's book about Michail Gorbachev / About the man who wonted as better/ (О человеке, который хотел как лучше...(Заметки о кн. А. Грачева о первом и последнем Президенте СССР)
http://lit.lib.ru/m/matros_l_g/ocherk-11.shtml
http://www.litmir.net/br/?b=203670&p=110
L Matros's monograph " Social Aspects Of The Problem Of Heath " included in reference list in Methodological Recommendation by Ministry of Health for study philosophical problems of medicine
http://www.nizhgma.ru/_resources/directory/177/common/metodich_seminar_ist_filosof.pdf
As a reference book, Matos' monograph, Social Aspects of the Problem of Health (1992), digitized by the University of Michigan, 2007
As a reference book, Matos' monograph, Social Aspects of the Problem of Health (1992), digitized by the University of California, 2006
- By Larisa Matros books presentation: http://www.odessitclub.org/reading_room/matros/moya_odessa.php
- L.Matros’s short story, Before The Ball, used as a model for essay for State Exam (ЕГЭ) http://egesoch.blogspot.ru/2014/02/27-2013.html
- Review about L. Matros’s anthology Not Small Tragedy
- Publication by professor linguist V.Z. Demiyanuk where L. Matros’s novel Presumption Of Guilt as one of the subject of linguistic study http://www.infolex.ru/FOR_GAK.HTM
- Educational portal where L.Matros’s article Don’t Forget The Past used as a model for essay for State Exam (ЕГЭ) http://nsportal.ru/blog/obshcheobrazovatelnaya-tematika/all/obrazets-napisaniya-sochineniya-po-russkomu-yazyku-ege
- About L Matros’s participation at the World Book Festival (33e Salon Du Livre) in Paris 2013: http://www.proza.ru/2013/11/17/711
- http://www.bulbbook.com/American%20Writers%20.html
- http://www.senator.senat.org/AMERICAN_TRAGEDY.html
- http://www.slavaspodik.com/doc.php?bc1=%D0%E5%F6%E5%ED%E7%E8%E8&bc2=%C4%C8%CB%CE%C3%C8%DF_%CB%C0%D0%C8%D1%DB_%CC%C0%D2%D0%CE%D1&type=%D0%E5%F6%E5%ED%E7%E8%E8&name=%C4%C8%CB%CE%C3%C8%DF_%CB%C0%D0%C8%D1%DB_%CC%C0%D2%D0%CE%D1.htm
http://ecsocman.hse.ru/data/180/935/1216/11Knizhnaya_polka.pdf
lL.Matros's publication included in Methodological Recommendation by Ministry of Education for State Exam
- http://www.uni-altai.ru/list/getdis.php?vid=1&iddis=89
- http://www.myshared.ru/slide/628743
- http://www.konkurs.senat.org/article/L_Matros.html
- http://www.konkurs.senat.org/article/13.html
- http://www.konkurs.senat.org/letters/12.html
http://www.berkovich-zametki.com/2014/Zametki/Nomer7/MNosonovsky1.php